The Spanish king's private bathroom embraced the idea of a porcelain throne.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

Mark Twain once stopped at this rest station during his journey to Nevada.

One of America's largest retail chains got its start in one of its most remote rural destinations.

The rusting hulk of a 250-foot-long merchant vessel remains where she grounded on the shore of Hudson Bay.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.

This reconstructed Norman castle is the world's most accurate, from location to livestock.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artists.

More than 1,000 stone figures were discovered in a small Nigerian town, where they had been sitting for centuries.

This inverted metropolis model is the artist's "revenge" for not being allowed to have a doll house as a kid.

A stone memorial marking the location where Scotland's first aeronautical flight landed.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

The ruins of the first Spanish settlement in Puerto Rico.

This "sausage route" features gorgeous views and family-owned restaurants.

This museum preserves the heyday of Puerto Rican coffee.